Ryan Holiday Quotes

The perfect spouse is the best life hack no one told you about.

Your information matters as much as your physical diet. Choose carefully what you put in your brain.

Stop wasting your time on these 6 things:

1. Worrying about other people’s opinions
2. Judging other people
3. Putting things off to the future
4. Holding onto the past
5. Arguing with reality
6. Thinking you are going to live forever

You can’t learn if you think you already know. You can’t get better if you think you are the best.

The most dangerous thing that can happen to the smartest person in the world is to start to believe that they are the smartest person in the world.

Everything starts at zero. Progress is made one small step, one crappy page every day.

Only a fool goes with their first thought. A wise person takes time to contemplate.

Focus on the present moment, not the monsters that may or may not be ahead.

You have to go deep. If your goal is to get not just smarter or more knowledgeable, but wiser, you cannot be content to learn in half measures.

If you let anger into your life, once you let it motivate or animate you, it’s very hard to get rid of. It’s hard to find a substitute that measures up. It’s hard to let it go.

3 Things You Need To Stop Doing From The Stoics

1. Stop following the mob (Chrysippus)
2. Stop avoiding discomfort (Seneca)
3. Stop taking things personally (Marcus Aurelius)

We have to find the people who can teach us and open ourselves to learning from them. Whatever stage of life we’re in, there is someone who knows more than us, who has been through more than us, who can open doors for us.

A person that thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts.

There a really simple way to feel better in these crazy times: Do something nice for someone else.

The best journals aren’t for the reader. They are for the writer. To slow the mind down. To wage peace with oneself.